Ever since Qiao Ruohe’s fierce battle with Zixuan in Jinling Garden and her parting from Yue Yunshang, the woman in purple had been tirelessly inquiring about his whereabouts.
Searching everywhere, she learned that Qiao Ruohe had been seen in the Western Country in the company of a yellow-robed woman. Shaking off Zixuan’s persistent entanglements, she traveled alone to Luoxian Town on the border between the Eastern and Western Kingdoms.
Luoxian Town was teeming with rogue cultivators and immortals, alongside a fair number of covert spies from the five great sects of both realms. Yue Yunshang had come to this murky, chaotic place entirely on her own. To make it easier to move about, she had changed into men's attire. Yet even dressed as a man, she could not conceal her overflowing beauty. Seven or eight out of every ten rogue cultivators she passed cast lingering glances her way.
Chapter 48